STATISTICA SINICA Volume 17 Number 3 July 2007

Highlights -- Thirty Years of EM and Much More ......................... Xiao-Li Meng 839 A fast algorithm for the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimate in the Cox-Gene model ......... I-Shou Chang, Chi-Chung Wen, Yuh-Jenn Wu and Che-Chi Yang 841 Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for permutation tests on truncated data .............. ........................................................ Yuguo Chen and Jun S. Liu 857 A modified EM-algorithm for estimating the parameters of inverse Gaussian distribution based on time-censored Wiener degradation data ...................... ....................................................... Ming-Yung Lee and Jen Tang 873 Pool size selection for the sampling/importance resampling algorithm ................ ...................................................................... Kim-Hung Li 895 Finite mixture modelling using the skew normal distribution ......................... ......................................... Tsung I. Lin, Jack C. Lee and Shu Y. Yen 909 Maximum likelihood inference in robust linear mixed-effects models using multivariate $t$ distributions ......... Peter X.-K. Song, Peng Zhang and Annie Qu 929 A fast EM algorithm for quadratic optimization subject to convex constraints ........ .......................... Ming Tan, Guo-Liang Tian, Hong-Bin Fang and Kai Wang Ng 945 Functional principal component analysis for longitudinal and survival data .......... ......................................................................... Fang Yao 965 Lookahead and piloting strategies for variable selection ............................ ............................ Junni L. Zhang, Ming T. Lin, Jun S. Liu and Rong Chen 985 An algebraic construction of minimally-supported $D$-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression .......................... Fu-Chuen Chang and Bo-Jung Jiang 1005 A profile likelihood theory for the correlated gamma-frailty model with current status family data ................... I-Shou Chang, Chi-Chung Wen and Yuh-Jenn Wu 1023 Asymptotic normality under two-phase sampling designs ............................... ..................................................... Jiahua Chen and J. N. K. Rao 1047 Adaptive estimation in a nonparametric regression model with errors-in-variables .... ........................................................ F. Comte and M.-L. Taupin 1065 The Maximum Likelihood method with estimated nuisance parameters in hazard rate ..... models with discontinuities ....................................... Dietmar Ferger 1091 Testing for the equality of $k$ regression curves ................................... . Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernandez, Ingrid Van Keilegom and Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga 1115 CUSUM and EWMA multi-charts for detecting a range of mean shifts .................... .................................. Dong Han, Fugee Tsung, Xijian Hu and Kaibo Wang 1139 Inference under peakedness restrictions ............................................. ............................. Javier Rojo & Jose Batun-Cutz & Ramon Durazo-Arvizu 1165 Two-level nonregular designs from quaternary linear codes ........................... ...................................................... Hongquan Xu and Alan Wong 1189 Population size estimation in proportional trapping removal and recapture models .... with known capture times ................. Paul S. F. Yip, Liqun Xi and Liping Liu 1215 Structure functions for regular $s^{l-m}$ designs with multiple groups of factors .. ........................................................... Yu Zhu and C. F. J. Wu 1237 2007 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405